Jae-Beom Lee
Co-CEO, Kakao
Jae Beom Lee is a Co-CEO and a founder of Kakao Corp. which is Korea’s leading mobile social platform service company that represents mobile communication culture in Korea. After graduating from Seoul National University, majoring in industrial engineering, he established a company for web and mobile internet solutions. In 2007, Jae Beom met Beom Su Kim, the former founder of NHN Corp. and current chairman of Kakao Corp. Jae Beom joined him at Kakao Corp. and they have been leading IT mobile platform industry since then.
Kakao Corp. provides services such as mobile social platform ‘KakaoTalk’ and mobile SNS ‘KakaoStory’. Based on KakaoTalk’s massive usage and network, it has become one of the leading communicating channels that represents the age of smartphones. More than 30 million people use KakaoTalk for sending 4.8 billion messages a day.
Furthermore, Kakao Corp. is the first in the world to expand its platform into various areas such as business marketing, commerce, games, fashion, and digital contents that are optimized for mobiles. It is building a win-win mobile ecosystem that developers, companies and contents makers can grow together.
KakaoTalk is currently available in 13 languages in 230 countries. It was selected as No.1 Free SMS App by CNET and was awarded the world’s renowned Red Herring Asia 100 Award. KakaoTalk is becoming one of the fastest growing worldwide mobile platforms.